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/**
 * Support for index-time and query-time joins.
 *
 * <h2>Index-time joins</h2>
 *
 * <p>The index-time joining support joins while searching, where joined documents are indexed as a
 * single document block using {@link org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter#addDocuments
 * IndexWriter.addDocuments()}. This is useful for any normalized content (XML documents or database
 * tables). In database terms, all rows for all joined tables matching a single row of the primary
 * table must be indexed as a single document block, with the parent document being last in the
 * group.
 *
 * <p>When you index in this way, the documents in your index are divided into parent documents (the
 * last document of each block) and child documents (all others). You provide a {@link
 * org.apache.lucene.search.join.BitSetProducer} that identifies the parent documents, as Lucene
 * does not currently record any information about doc blocks.
 *
 * <p>At search time, use {@link org.apache.lucene.search.join.ToParentBlockJoinQuery} to remap/join
 * matches from any child {@link org.apache.lucene.search.Query} (ie, a query that matches only
 * child documents) up to the parent document space. The resulting query can then be used as a
 * clause in any query that matches parent.
 *
 * <p>If you care about what child documents matched for each parent document, then use the {@link
 * org.apache.lucene.search.join.ParentChildrenBlockJoinQuery} query to per matched parent document
 * retrieve the child documents that caused to match the parent document in first place. This query
 * should be used after your main query has been executed. For each hit execute the {@link
 * org.apache.lucene.search.join.ParentChildrenBlockJoinQuery} query
 *
 * <pre class="prettyprint">
 *   TopDocs results = searcher.search(mainQuery, 10);
 *   for (int i = 0; i &lt; results.scoreDocs.length; i++) {
 *     ScoreDoc scoreDoc = results.scoreDocs[i];
 *
 *     // Run ParentChildrenBlockJoinQuery to figure out the top matching child docs:
 *     ParentChildrenBlockJoinQuery parentChildrenBlockJoinQuery =
 *       new ParentChildrenBlockJoinQuery(parentFilter, childQuery, scoreDoc.doc);
 *     TopDocs topChildResults = searcher.search(parentChildrenBlockJoinQuery, 3);
 *     // Process top child hits...
 *   }
 * </pre>
 *
 * <p>To map/join in the opposite direction, use {@link
 * org.apache.lucene.search.join.ToChildBlockJoinQuery}. This wraps any query matching parent
 * documents, creating the joined query matching only child documents.
 *
 * <h2>Query-time joins</h2>
 *
 * <p>The query time joining is index term based and implemented as two pass search. The first pass
 * collects all the terms from a fromField that match the fromQuery. The second pass returns all
 * documents that have matching terms in a toField to the terms collected in the first pass.
 *
 * <p>Query time joining has the following input:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li><code>fromField</code>: The from field to join from.
 *   <li><code>fromQuery</code>: The query executed to collect the from terms. This is usually the
 *       user specified query.
 *   <li><code>multipleValuesPerDocument</code>: Whether the fromField contains more than one value
 *       per document
 *   <li><code>scoreMode</code>: Defines how scores are translated to the other join side. If you
 *       don't care about scoring use {@link org.apache.lucene.search.join.ScoreMode#None} mode.
 *       This will disable scoring and is therefore more efficient (requires less memory and is
 *       faster).
 *   <li><code>toField</code>: The to field to join to
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>Basically the query-time joining is accessible from one static method. The user of this method
 * supplies the method with the described input and a <code>IndexSearcher</code> where the from
 * terms need to be collected from. The returned query can be executed with the same <code>
 * IndexSearcher</code>, but also with another <code>IndexSearcher</code>. Example usage of the
 * {@link org.apache.lucene.search.join.JoinUtil#createJoinQuery(String, boolean, String,
 * org.apache.lucene.search.Query, org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher,
 * org.apache.lucene.search.join.ScoreMode) JoinUtil.createJoinQuery()} :
 *
 * <pre class="prettyprint">
 *   String fromField = "from"; // Name of the from field
 *   boolean multipleValuesPerDocument = false; // Set only to true in the case when your fromField has multiple values per document in your index
 *   String toField = "to"; // Name of the to field
 *   ScoreMode scoreMode = ScoreMode.Max; // Defines how the scores are translated into the other side of the join.
 *   Query fromQuery = new TermQuery(new Term("content", searchTerm)); // Query executed to collect from values to join to the to values
 *
 *   Query joinQuery = JoinUtil.createJoinQuery(fromField, multipleValuesPerDocument, toField, fromQuery, fromSearcher, scoreMode);
 *   TopDocs topDocs = toSearcher.search(joinQuery, 10); // Note: toSearcher can be the same as the fromSearcher
 *   // Render topDocs...
 * </pre>
 */
package org.apache.lucene.search.join;
